Aladdin (/u/RealtechPostBot) is a simple bot I made to combat how /r/technology has became a highly political, repetitive, and somewhat circlejerky subreddit.

Aladdin scans the top 100 posts from /r/technology, calculates a simple keyword-based score, and reposts submissions whose score is below a certain threshold to /r/realtech. The system is crude but very effective, eliminating most undesirable posts and leaving behind many posts that are usually buried by /r/technology's subscribers.

The bot currently scrapes the "top" page of /r/technology once every ten minutes.

Accidentally mirrored spam, non-news, and other irrelevant content is removed manually. WSJ posts automatically get a comment with a paywall bypass link (feature removed due to WSJ disabling Google cache), all posts get a comment with a link to the original /r/technology thread. Content that ends up in the spam filter usually stays in the spam filter (it's usually from site-wide banned domains that /r/technology for some reason approves). A simple additional additional spam filter is used by the bot to filter out posts that /r/technology's moderators/spam filter didn't catch. Multiple posts with similar titles are filtered out via a string comparison filter function, which mostly eliminates the flood of articles that follow major news announcements.

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Quick Summary:

"For Siemens, this order constitutes the entry into the US market for high-speed diesel-driven locomotives," Siemens Rail Systems Executive Jochen Eickholt said in a statement.

The passenger locomotives would be delivered to five US states, including California, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Washington, which were developing high-speed rail routes with US rail operator Amtrak, Siemens said.

Siemens Rail System Executive Eickholt said he was confident the protest would again be rejected, saying the order had been officially cleared and Siemens possessed a legally binding contract.

The endeavor represents the first attempt in the United States at replicating similar high-speed train services in Europe and Asia.

Earlier this month, Caterpillar protested the Siemens contract, claiming the company's locomotives didn't meet the required speed of 125 miles per hour (201 kilometers per hour).

Disclaimer:this summary is not guaranteed to be accurate, correct or even news.